In Part 1, I talked about the two new property access specifiers and showed a way of using them. Now, I would like to show another way of using them.

add_Some combines the existing delegates in FOnSome with the new delegate, and assigns it to FOnSome, such that the new delegate is added to the last position.

remove_Some removes the specified delegate from the existing delegates listed in FOnSome, and assigns the result to FOnSome.

Is there a way of clearing the delegate list, or changing the order of insertion of delegates if you're not privy to the declarations?

To be continued...

program MulticastEvents2;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

uses
  Classes;

type
  TSomeEvent = procedure;

  TSomeObject = class
  private
    FOnSome: TSomeEvent;
    procedure add_Some(Value: TSomeEvent);
    procedure remove_Some(Value: TSomeEvent);
  public
    procedure ClearSome;
    procedure DoSome;
    property OnSome: TSomeEvent add add_Some remove remove_Some;
  end;

procedure TSomeObject.add_Some(Value: TSomeEvent);
begin
  FOnSome := TSomeEvent(Delegate.Combine(Delegate(@FOnSome), Delegate(@Value)));
end;

procedure TSomeObject.ClearSome;
var
  List: array of Delegate;
  I: Integer;
begin
  if Assigned(FOnSome) then
  begin
    List := Delegate(@FOnSome).GetInvocationList;
    for I := 0 to Length(List) - 1 do
      Exclude(OnSome, TSomeEvent(ListIdea));
  end;
end;

procedure TSomeObject.DoSome;
begin
  if Assigned(FOnSome) then
    FOnSome;
end;

procedure TSomeObject.remove_Some(Value: TSomeEvent);
begin
  FOnSome := TSomeEvent(System.Delegate.Remove(Delegate(@FOnSome), Delegate(@Value)));
end;

procedure Some1;
begin
  WriteLn('Hello world, I am Some1');
end;

procedure Some2;
begin
  WriteLn('Hello world, I am Some2');
end;

procedure Some3;
begin
  WriteLn('Hello world, I am Some3');
end;

var
  SomeObj: TSomeObject;
begin
  SomeObj := TSomeObject.Create;
  Include(SomeObj.OnSome, Some1);
  Include(SomeObj.OnSome, Some2);
  Include(SomeObj.OnSome, Some3);

  SomeObj.DoSome;

  WriteLn;
  WriteLn('All handlers will now be removed...');
  WriteLn;

  SomeObj.ClearSome;

  SomeObj.DoSome;

  WriteLn('End of demonstration for add and remove property access specifiers');
  ReadLn;

end.